Simon Thurley (above), chief executive of English Heritage, has claimed market towns could be forced to triple in size to accommodate ‘huge slabs’ of housing as the government desperately tries to solve the housing crisis

‘If we think there has been a pressure to build houses already, we have seen nothing yet,’ he said.

Mr Thurley said that, any party which came into power, would be forced to ‘put its foot on the accelerator’ using ‘draconian measures’ to expand towns in line with the current housing crisis

The comments came at the Henley Literary Festival - supported by the Daily Mail - yesterday during a talk which he gave about his new book: The Building of England.

He described the ‘huge identical slabs of housing’ as ‘the biggest and most worrying threat’ faced by Britain.

Instead of developing towns such as Chichester, Dorchester and Henley, Mr Thurley suggested that spaces above shops should be turned into home and that land occupied by car parks re-used to create new homes.

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